Google to Improve Search Appliance for Enterprises


Bangalore: Google Search Appliance 7.0, an application designed to add information?s from various sources like cloud, social networking sites, public web and even secured storage, is all set to get its upgrade.

"Google is really doubling down on enterprise search," said Matthew Eichner, general manager of Enterprise Search for Google. "We think that enterprise search is an unsolved problem. We're really targeting now the world's largest organizations with great complexity problems."

This upgrade will help employees find information stored anywhere within their organization and it eases the difficulty in filtering and exploring.

"With GSA 7.0, we've refined our relevance signals," Eichner wrote in a blog post. "Entity Recognition automatically identifies and suggests content you might be looking for, and GSA 7.0 also harnesses the 'wisdom of crowds,' allowing employees to add their own search results."

According to David Schubmehl, an analyst with IDC, the upgrade posses so much of relevance that it brings a new interface along with a fresh document preview feature that enables users to view thumbnails and flip through full-screen documents alongside their search results.

"People are still dissatisfied with the way their internal search systems work," Schubmehl said. "Everybody wants it to be as good as the Web. If I don't find the answer, I at least want to find an answer. Google is trying to make internal search as good as Web search."

But Schubmehl added that GSA 7.0 still has challenges. For instance, each kind of repository has a different access method, so that the administrators have to create a custom program to read the data from each particular system.

However, Google Search Appliance 7.0 clearly stands out with its benefits like faster search and better filtering of data.

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